Wow it's so rare to see an editor breakdown each ethnic group pigmentation to better understand how to color grade each unique skin tone. Astonishing work!
Color Grading Central is THE best tutorials you can find on the internet. Not only does he go through it step by step. He does it for multiple examples with multiple softwares. Dinner is served!
Oh my god this is the greatest video I've seen on this subject. So many videos doing so many things. But this was the one. I still have no idea how to properly do a million other things, but I got natural skin tones down now.
Mate, your tutorials are just amazing. I am a beginner to a point where i didnot even know what Hue, Luma etc is. Watched your tutorials and Voila!!!!!! Keep it up mate and please keep producing content like this specially focussed on absolute beginners. we all really appreciate your efforts.🙏👍 Thanks Heaps!!
This was great for me. I have struggled at finding a good way for getting the best skin tones. Seeing the premiere work flow was very helpful for me. Thank you!
@@freelancedigitalartist if I want to brighten whole shot I would reach for exposure slider, if I just want to add a little more brightness in the skin tones I would use the mid tones wheel.
My dude, brilliant video. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. Would love to see a video explaining all Adobe curves and what situations to use them.
Great video! I'm often filming in the forest and the green cast from leaves is really difficult to deal with. Thanks for this tutorial. It puts me on the path to much better color. Much respect for being inclusive and demonstrating on various shades of skin too.
Thanks! That use of the Hue/Sat curve worked nicely for me on a particularly tricky bit of video - very pale-skinned talent against a mostly white background (we had limited options and even more limited time - you know the way!). Got just enough 'pop' out of it to save the day.
I am so thankful to you for this video! I've been editing for 6 years now but never knew this trick. I had to spend hours to get the perfect skin tones but this just has changed everything now. This is really some high IQ stuff❤
Thanks....great information. I'll be writing this down for future use in my projects. Very helpful...especially showing specifically within each editing software (I'm a Premiere Pro guy myself).
A tutorial to perfect skin tones? Great. A tutorial to perfect three different types of skin tones? Fantastic. A tutorial to perfect three different types of skin tones, and each of them is shown on a different editing software? Holy shit
As always, clear and effective. Your color grading academy is in my opinion the best platform for learning. Thank you for keeping sharing your knowledge.
Can you share why you make this adjustment in the Hue Vs Hue curve only on the skin tones, rather than adjusting the white balance or entire image Hue? For example, if the skin is too green, wouldn’t you assume the whole image is too green and want to bring the entire thing back towards magenta instead of just the skin? In my scenario, wouldn’t bringing just the green skin back to natural by shifting towards magenta leave the rest of the image too green? Or is this skin tone correction method always done AFTER white balance correction on the entire image? Thanks 👍
Sure that's going to vary based on the type of footage. You may not need the added qualification with the shape. But if the rest of the image is looking right and the skin tones are off, like in our example, you'll need the shape.
Color Grading Central Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I still make a shape mask, but typically adjust the white balance, tint, and saturation to bring everything into proper place on the skin tone line before deleting the mask. But that’s because I only ever run into the situation where if the skin is too green, for example, it’s because the whole frame is, so adjusting via Hue Vs Hue on just the oranges/reds would leave the rest of the frame too green. Is that not your experience?
@@NewLayer You need to add a shape to qualify your correction then. Deleting the mask is what's causing the correction to apply to the entire image. Once you've made your correction add a shape mask/power window to qualify your correction to just the skin tones.
@@colorgradingcentral I know that, and would use Secondary HSL for that usually. I'm just trying to understand why you do this correction with Hue vs Hue instead of adjusting the white balance as a whole. The only thing I can think of is that the Hue vs Hue method should be done AFTER proper white balancing on the entire image, to correct any residual skin tone issues, but you didn't mention that, which is why I ask. Otherwise, this would adjust only skin/orange things, but all non-skin tones in the image would still be off. In that case it would make sense to simply white balance the image using Temp and Tint using the skin tone line (I believe you show this in another video, since even without something white, skin tone is a known variable to work from for white balance), because it would correct the image as a whole. You obviously know what you're doing, but I'm trying to see how this method would be "accurate" in the rest of the frame, unless you simply left out the part about white balancing the entire image first.
Thanks for posting such an informative video with some actual scope data and values to help guide people learning about skin tone colour correction. Really appreciate this tutorial for Davinci Resolve. Be interested to see if you come up with any newer or faster methods with the new release of Resolve v17
V v uselful video dear can you pls let me clear is this technique will work when the face is moving right and left or we need to use keyframs along with tracker? Coz othere side of the face is not in the mask?
Another great video, question! What about adjustment layers? I’ve noticed you don’t regularly use them, you make a compound clip and do all the adjustments on the footage directly. Wouldn’t be better doing it on an adjustment layer? Thanks 🙏
TopicRuben I would only use adjustment layers/groups/compound clips to create an individual uniform "look" across multiple clips. But I would still color correct and match clips together individually.
@@colorgradingcentral Thanks Denver. What about in terms of IRE values? Is the ideal IRE range for darker skin tones lower than that for caucasian skin tones?
Wow it's so rare to see an editor breakdown each ethnic group pigmentation to better understand how to color grade each unique skin tone. Astonishing work!
Thanks so much!!
Also with being so respectful to each ethnicity which was very cool. Made me subb because he is very emotional inteli
Color Grading Central is THE best tutorials you can find on the internet. Not only does he go through it step by step. He does it for multiple examples with multiple softwares. Dinner is served!
Thanks so much Magnus!!
Oh my god this is the greatest video I've seen on this subject. So many videos doing so many things. But this was the one. I still have no idea how to properly do a million other things, but I got natural skin tones down now.
the best skin tutorial on the internet! subscribed!
I have watched a lot of these and no one did it as well as you have. Thank you
Thank you so much for that!
Incredible man. Quite a breakdown. Love it
Thank you sooooooo much for sharing these in such a clear way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're welcome! Happy to help!
As an inspiring film maker or cinematographer, Colo Grading Central should be in your subscriptions list.
U r amazing. One of the best explanatory channels I have seen. Keep up your good work and spirit.
Thanks so much!!
Mate, your tutorials are just amazing. I am a beginner to a point where i didnot even know what Hue, Luma etc is. Watched your tutorials and Voila!!!!!!
Keep it up mate and please keep producing content like this specially focussed on absolute beginners. we all really appreciate your efforts.🙏👍
Thanks Heaps!!
That is very kind of you 1LIFE Fitness. I really do appreciate you taking the time to drop a comment and share your experience. 🙏🏼
This was great for me. I have struggled at finding a good way for getting the best skin tones. Seeing the premiere work flow was very helpful for me. Thank you!
Happy to hear that Todd!!
@@colorgradingcentral Quick question. When you adjust the luma in Premiere do you use the exposure slider or mid-tones wheel? Thanks!
@@freelancedigitalartist if I want to brighten whole shot I would reach for exposure slider, if I just want to add a little more brightness in the skin tones I would use the mid tones wheel.
Color Grading Central thanks so much for the reply. It means a lot to me when people actually respond to posts. I appreciate it.
Amazing video Denver. Really helpful
Best skintone video so far
Thanks so much!
been watching a few videos for color grading, so far yours are the best. cut to the chase, get results fast, no BS. subscribing now
Thanks for the kind words and the sub Jose!
My dude, brilliant video. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. Would love to see a video explaining all Adobe curves and what situations to use them.
Great video! I'm often filming in the forest and the green cast from leaves is really difficult to deal with. Thanks for this tutorial. It puts me on the path to much better color. Much respect for being inclusive and demonstrating on various shades of skin too.
Thanks so much Kevin!
Thanks for showing it being done on different softwares! Really helpful
Man your stuff is always on point. Great video.
Glad you found it helpful!
Hey, thanks this really helped make my project look a lot better!
Thanks! That use of the Hue/Sat curve worked nicely for me on a particularly tricky bit of video - very pale-skinned talent against a mostly white background (we had limited options and even more limited time - you know the way!). Got just enough 'pop' out of it to save the day.
Great to hear!
This RUclips channel is absolutely amazing. Thank you for the multiple examples of ethnicity and software!
Thanks so much John!
After watching this video I started to realize that you skin tone in your videos are all purrfeect 👍🏻🤩😄
Awesome stuff thanks Denver!
You're welcome Vince!!
I am so thankful to you for this video! I've been editing for 6 years now but never knew this trick. I had to spend hours to get the perfect skin tones but this just has changed everything now. This is really some high IQ stuff❤
always a pleasure to watch!! Very informative !! Awesome once again!
Glad you enjoyed it!
quite amazing....incredible explanation on this...you are a great teacher!
Highly respect that you did this with different skin colours 👏🏾
this is great! simple but on point tutorial!
Thanks so much!
This is a gem
Thanks so much!!
Nice! This info is amazing! And good explanation! Thanks so much!
This is the most helpful video I have found 👏
Completely priceless information - thank you so so much for this!
You're welcome Matthew!
Excellent tutorial. Straight to point and delivers. I appreciate hitting all three of the major NLE's, being a FCPX guy myself. SUBSCRIBED!
Thanks for the kind words and the sub Sean!
Wow. just wow. Perfect!!!
Thanks....great information. I'll be writing this down for future use in my projects. Very helpful...especially showing specifically within each editing software (I'm a Premiere Pro guy myself).
Great tips to get the most from the scopes ! Nothing worse than spend hours eyeballing the skintones.
My man is back with his amazing knowledge 👨🏼🏫. Thank you 👌🏾
so simple and yet so useful! thanks for showing us the process in different softwares and ethinicities :D
I love your channel! subscribed
Thanks for the kind words and the sub!
This channel is so amazing and helpful! My work has greatly improved after seeing a couple of your videos
Thanks so much Mitch!!
Thank u so much for covering the same method in premiere - davinci & fcp.. was really helpful. Expecting more great tutorials from you. ♥️😇✌️
More to come!
@@colorgradingcentral 🤗
loved this 🤗
This was one of the most useful tutorials I've seen in a while. Thank you!
That is very kind of you, thank you Cary 🙏🏼
word!
Thank you so much, you have no idea how much this helped me.
I'm so glad!
beautiful and useful tutorial, THANKS a lot!!!
There is many color grading tutorial in youtube, but im pretty sure yours is the pro one.
Thank you!!
Thank you so much. This helped me a lot. I need to sign up for your course!
This Video is Important, Thank God i know how to use all three softwares
best skin tone tutorial of all time
Thank you so much Elias!!
thank you very much for this - well explained - easy to follow - really helpful!
You're welcome! Happy to help!
Just fell in love with your tutorial style. Keep it up, mate!
Thanks, that really help me a lots. And your video is right on the point.
Thrilled to hear that!
Thank you for this. Very well done!
My pleasure, Andy!
Excellent work; thanks a lot.
You're welcome! Happy to help!
Excellent video, I still have one question, how does one grade just the skin tones? without it affecting the background for example
Omg Such a amazing explanation
A tutorial to perfect skin tones? Great.
A tutorial to perfect three different types of skin tones? Fantastic.
A tutorial to perfect three different types of skin tones, and each of them is shown on a different editing software? Holy shit
Question, so do we soften the skin tones the same exact way?
FCPX user here. Great tip. Thanks Denver.
Happy to hear that Chris!
So ✨AMA - ZING✨ I love your tutorials they are so informative. You make it so simple to apply. Love it Love it Love it!!
This video has helped me so much!
Another great tutorial. Thanks Denver! P.S. - ya'll I'm doing his Color Grading Academy, it's great. Highly recommend!
Thanks so much Seth! Thrilled to hear that!
Awesome tip, thanks for sharing!
Thank you for your lesson. Awesome. Do you happen to have a video on easy and very good transition? Thank you!
Thank you! If you're using Premiere we have a video right here on transitions: ruclips.net/video/LCQxvl_YmTw/видео.html
As always, clear and effective. Your color grading academy is in my opinion the best platform for learning. Thank you for keeping sharing your knowledge.
Skintone Game strong bro! 💪
Always helpful! Thank you Denver
You're welcome! Happy to help!
Can you share why you make this adjustment in the Hue Vs Hue curve only on the skin tones, rather than adjusting the white balance or entire image Hue?
For example, if the skin is too green, wouldn’t you assume the whole image is too green and want to bring the entire thing back towards magenta instead of just the skin?
In my scenario, wouldn’t bringing just the green skin back to natural by shifting towards magenta leave the rest of the image too green?
Or is this skin tone correction method always done AFTER white balance correction on the entire image? Thanks 👍
Sure that's going to vary based on the type of footage. You may not need the added qualification with the shape. But if the rest of the image is looking right and the skin tones are off, like in our example, you'll need the shape.
Color Grading Central Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I still make a shape mask, but typically adjust the white balance, tint, and saturation to bring everything into proper place on the skin tone line before deleting the mask. But that’s because I only ever run into the situation where if the skin is too green, for example, it’s because the whole frame is, so adjusting via Hue Vs Hue on just the oranges/reds would leave the rest of the frame too green.
Is that not your experience?
@@NewLayer You need to add a shape to qualify your correction then. Deleting the mask is what's causing the correction to apply to the entire image. Once you've made your correction add a shape mask/power window to qualify your correction to just the skin tones.
@@colorgradingcentral I know that, and would use Secondary HSL for that usually. I'm just trying to understand why you do this correction with Hue vs Hue instead of adjusting the white balance as a whole.
The only thing I can think of is that the Hue vs Hue method should be done AFTER proper white balancing on the entire image, to correct any residual skin tone issues, but you didn't mention that, which is why I ask. Otherwise, this would adjust only skin/orange things, but all non-skin tones in the image would still be off.
In that case it would make sense to simply white balance the image using Temp and Tint using the skin tone line (I believe you show this in another video, since even without something white, skin tone is a known variable to work from for white balance), because it would correct the image as a whole.
You obviously know what you're doing, but I'm trying to see how this method would be "accurate" in the rest of the frame, unless you simply left out the part about white balancing the entire image first.
Excellent !
Incredible job, Denver!
Thank you very much! Glad you got a lot out of it!
Another great explanation and tutorial, D!
Thanks K.B.!
Thank you!!!!!! Really helped me 😁😁😁
Happy to hear that!
"Right on point!" lol great video buddy👍
Thanks so much!
Thanks for posting such an informative video with some actual scope data and values to help guide people learning about skin tone colour correction. Really appreciate this tutorial for Davinci Resolve. Be interested to see if you come up with any newer or faster methods with the new release of Resolve v17
Awesome. I love these colour grading sessions
Happy to hear it Samuel!!
love this
Thanks Denver for this tuts.
V v uselful video dear can you pls let me clear is this technique will work when the face is moving right and left or we need to use keyframs along with tracker? Coz othere side of the face is not in the mask?
If the two sides need a separate correction you may need another keyframed/tracked mask, yes. If I"m understanding the question
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amazing!
Such helpful info. Thank you!
Thank you. Very well done.
Insightful, expert, super helpful tips...as usual. Thanks!!!
Thanks so much Peter!
wonderful tutorial 👌
Thank you Musab!
super super super usefull!!!
Thanks so much Carlos!
Wow that was easy Thanks
Thanks. I will practice it
this content is amazing!!! inside the bit
That's great. Thank you
Awesome! Thanks!
You're welcome Flavio!!
Another great video, question! What about adjustment layers? I’ve noticed you don’t regularly use them, you make a compound clip and do all the adjustments on the footage directly. Wouldn’t be better doing it on an adjustment layer? Thanks 🙏
TopicRuben I would only use adjustment layers/groups/compound clips to create an individual uniform "look" across multiple clips. But I would still color correct and match clips together individually.
Color Grading Central thanks 🙏 a million
This is very helpful thank you :)
wow , big up for amazing info
thank you :) super helpful!
Wow spot on, I was messing with the wheels to try and adjust bits.
Very useful ! Thanks a lot
cool video. how about colourgrade videos with 2 or more different skintones in same scene?
Thanks for a great tutorial Denver! Are there different ideal luma values for caucasian vs darker skin tones?
Thanks Michael! Yes, darker skin tones tend to sit on and a little to the right of the I bar, while caucasian tones are usually directly on the I bar.
@@colorgradingcentral Thanks Denver. What about in terms of IRE values? Is the ideal IRE range for darker skin tones lower than that for caucasian skin tones?
Outstanding... thank you!
You're very welcome!